Lindsey Vonn fit to resume skiing record quest

Injury delayed the start of her farewell season, but Lindsey Vonn is fit again and set to return to action i...

Posted: Jan. 8, 2019 4:11 AM

Updated: Jan. 8, 2019 4:11 AM

Posted By: CNN Wire

Injury delayed the start of her farewell season, but Lindsey Vonn is fit again and set to return to action in St. Anton, Austria this weekend.

The 34-year-old hurt her knee in a training crash at Copper Mountain, Colorado in November and has spent the intervening weeks in rehab as compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin has stolen the limelight with a string of victories in skiing's technical disciplines.

But speed queen Vonn announced her comeback in a video posted on Instagram, and will resume her quest to pass Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's record of 86 World Cup victories.

"I'm NOT done yet!!! It's been a tough 6 weeks but I'm on skis again and excited to get back in the starting gate. See you in St. Anton this weekend," she wrote on the post.

The American needs five wins to pass Stenmark in what she has said will be her final full season.

"Physically, I've gotten to the point where it doesn't make sense. I really would like to be active when I'm older," the injury-hit Vonn told NBC in October.

She also intends to race in Lake Louise, Canada, at the start of the next season after missing the event at her favorite venue in December.

Vonn is already the most successful female World Cup ski racer of all time. One more victory would also make her the oldest winner of a World Cup race, passing Austrian Elisabeth Goergl, who was 33 years and 301 days old when she won her last race in 2014.